http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/laurenreef/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from laurenreef en-us Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:51:03 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:51:03 +0000 Now that Regatta is over I can see how dead Carriacou is without it. During the weekend and on Monday there were all night parties food vendors everywhere all the shops were open nonstop. There were awesome competitions...beer drinking donkey races running sailing. I met some cool people including locals who were decidedly unsketchy and also a really awesome girl who does Peace Corps here http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-309562.html Sorry its been so long since i put up a blog. The internet here was being sketch AGAIN and I just now got it to work again after being almost all week without it. Excavation went well this week...we were only rained out on Monday. I was at grand bay all week and I even got to work on a human burial with Scott B the bioarchaeologist from Eckard who is here with us. The burial was really interest http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-307841.html HEY ALLTuesday through Thursday I was at Sabazan the other site on the island. This site is headed by a UW phd student that is doing a project about faunal animal remains there. The set up is a lot different than Grand Bay. We only have 56 people so it is a lot less crowdedchaotic. We also have much smaller and deeper trenches...instead of one big 5X5 we have 4 small 1X1s scattered through http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-304847.html Here are all the pictures from the last entryI'll fill you in on the adventures at Sabazan the second site on the island tomorrowALR http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-303391.html Ugh this is getting kind of frustrating. The lack of good internet here is positively killing me. I wrote and ENTIRE bloghellip.like a good page and a halfhellipand the internet cut out so I lost it. LAME. The internet here has been really sketchy lately. I canrsquot get internet at all on my computer so I canrsquot upload pictures for you all. The internet went down here for a day or so b http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-302545.html Sorry its been so long since my last entry but the internet is slow as crap here and uploading pictures takes several hours. But heres some updates on my exciting life...I don't think I have ever seenheard rain so intense as it is here. It rains so hard that you can't sleep because of it pounding on the roof or go out or anything then in about 15 minutes its sunny out. Its like the weather has http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-299830.html We started digging on Monday. Our buses picked us up at 8 and we took the narrow winding road over the mountain to Grand Bay our principle site. A word about the drivers in Carriacou theyre completely NUTS They speed and take curves super sharp. They also honk at EVERYONE...I guess it's the polite thing to do when you know everyone on the island. Anyways we got there and started clearing the http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-297729.html GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF NUTMEGGetting to Carriacou has been an adventure to say the least. My trip began well my flight to Miami was fine as was my flight to San Juan. The flights were made infinitely better by the fact that my lovely parents upgraded me to first class The first two pictures on here are of the food.. salmon salad for lunch tortellini with mushroom cream sauce for dinne http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-296323.html